Monday I returned to the open space park near our home, this time with camera, but I encountered no rattlesnakes to show you. I did notice more native plants exhibiting their late summer/fall colors in my quest to start experiencing each summer day...my way of untying the ribbons.
First up is the stately Mullein, some were easily 6 feet tall. I like how they frame the red rocks (snake habitat). To the right is Gayfeather. They are blooming everywhere. I tried growing them in my garden but the rabbits ate them to the ground.
This is the omnipresent Rabbitbrush. It is a modest wallflower of a shrub until late summer when it explodes with golden glory.
"Poppies...poppies. Poppies will put them to sleep."
There were acres of white prickly poppies abloom. I have never noticed so many. The Wicked Witch of the West must have been referring to these, my pretty.
"I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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